The Arabian Nightmare

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The Arabian Nightmare
by Robert Irwin
"Robert Irwin is irideed particularly brilliant. He takes the story-within-a-story technique of the Arab storyteller a stage further, so that a tangle of dreams and imaginings becomes part of the narrative fabric. The prose is discriminating and, beauty of all beauties, the book is constantly entertaining."
Hilary Bailey in The Guardian
"A masterpiece of historical fantasy and fetid imagination."
Mark Sanderson in Time Out
".: a classic orientalist fantasy tells the story of Balian of Norwich and his misadventures in a labyrinth in Cairo at the time of the Mamelukes. Steamy, exotic and ingenious, it is a boxes-within-boxes tale featuring such characters as Yoll, the Storyteller, Fatima the Deathly and the Father of Cats. It is a compellmg meditation on reality and illusion, as well as on Arabian Nights-style storytelling. At its elusive centre lies the affliction of the Arabian Nightmare: a dream of infinite suffering that can never be... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Arabian Nightmare
by Robert Irwin
"Robert Irwin is irideed particularly brilliant. He takes the story-within-a-story technique of the Arab storyteller a stage further, so that a tangle of dreams and imaginings becomes part of the narrative fabric. The prose is discriminating and, beauty of all beauties, the book is constantly entertaining."
Hilary Bailey in The Guardian
"A masterpiece of historical fantasy and fetid imagination."
Mark Sanderson in Time Out
".: a classic orientalist fantasy tells the story of Balian of Norwich and his misadventures in a labyrinth in Cairo at the time of the Mamelukes. Steamy, exotic and ingenious, it is a boxes-within-boxes tale featuring such characters as Yoll, the Storyteller, Fatima the Deathly and the Father of Cats. It is a compellmg meditation on reality and illusion, as well as on Arabian Nights-style storytelling. At its elusive centre lies the affliction of the Arabian Nightmare: a dream of infinite suffering that can never be remembered on wakingy and might almost have happened to somebody else." <
Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
"The Nightmare is a conceit worthy of Borges."
' The New York Times
"One must allow oneself to be dazzled by this fable about sleep whose virtuosity so delightfully stimulates the intelligence of the reader. It will seduce the whole world, the heavy sleepers as well as the insorrmiacs." L'Express
Cover illustration by Willi Gray Cover design by David Bird
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